Brikama Lower Basic School

HEADMASTER: Amadou Mjallow and HTA member Lamin

Amadou Mjallow is asking everyone "PLEASE HELP OUR SCHOOL, YOU CAN DONATE DIRECTLY TO US"
Postal Address:
HEADMASTER: AMADOU M JALLOW
Brikama Lower Basic School
Kombo Central
Western Division
The Gambia
West Africa
TEL: 00220 484 833


Opened in 1947 Roll: 2512
Children Boys-1288
Girls-1244
Number of Teachers: 62
Number of Classes - 59

School on double shift 23 classes in the morning and 27 in the afternoon.
The following are needs of the school:
PLEASE HELP US WITH THE FOLLOWING ITEMS

STATIONERY:
Folders, pencils, pens, chalks, felt-pens, erasers, sharpeners, crayons, colouring pencils, colour powder, art brushes, A4 paper, file covers, cello tape (all sizes) glue, envelopes (assorted) mathematics set/set boxes, dictionaries, library books, blackboard paints, sugar paper, tracing paper, quire books, quire books, exercise books, markers.

FURNITURE:
Stand pump/bore hole, wheel barrows, microscope, Scholarship for orphans and other needy students, Tables and chairs are urgently needed for the following within the school: Infants, b) intermediate, c) senior students, d) staff room, e) library, f) Staff quarters, g) assembly hall. Cupboard for staff quarter, cupboards for classrooms and library and assembly hall

EQUIPMENT:
Radio, tape recorder, television, video, computer, overhead projectors, solar Electrification, refrigerator, typewriter, stand fans, ceiling fans, inverters, batteries, loud speakers, generators, duplicating machines, photo copiers, wall clock, scales, globes, world maps. Transport: Pick-up, vans etc.,


THE LIBRARY & RESOURCE CENTRE:
Furniture:
Tables, chairs, cupboards, shelves, benches, buckets, cups, spoons, kettles, paints (oil). Teaching Aids: Post – cards, supplementary readers, test books of various subjects, especially African writers series.

Radio, cassettes, cassette tape recorder, camera and films and video A ledger book for borrows register. Pens, pencils, marker, crayons, cardboards, water colours, drawing paper, canvas, chalk, cello tape, white lime and paint for renovation of the library.

Drawing pins, dictionaries from grade 5-9


THE SCHOOL FARMS AND GARDEN
Tools that are available are as follows:
5 garden forks
1 spade
4 watering cans
2 rakes

Tools and equipment that are needed:
1. Garden forks
2. Spades
3. Rakes.
4. Hand tools – forks, spades, etc.
5. Barbed wire
6. Chicken wire
7. Nails 2” and 3”.
8. Solid gate for orchard/garden
9. Iron plates and rods for labels
10. Indelible marker for labels.
11. Spraying machine.
12. Pesticides.
13. Cutlasses, axes, hoes
14. Experiment boxes.
15. Seed varieties.
16. Nets and gloves.
17. Traps for rodents.
18. 50m/100m tape lines.
19. A bicycle for errands
20. Books on vegetable gardening

REFERENCE MATERIALS
Text Books on the following subjects:
1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics
4. General/Science
5. Physical Science


MARKING TOOLS
1. Scribes
2. Outside callipers
3. Inside callipers
4. Jennies callipers
5. Dividers
6. Compass divider
7. Punches

HOLDING TOOLS
Vice cramps
G – cramps
Sash – cramps
SPORTS AND P.E. NEEDS

FOOTBALL LOGISTICS
Original balls and pump
Football, jersey/vest
T Shirt
P- Shorts and shocks
Goal net
Football shoes


VOLLEY BALL
Volleyball net
Volleyballs
Volleyball jersey


BASKETBALL
Basket pitch
Basketballs

TENNIS
Table tennis materials
Table
Net
Bats and balls
Lawn tennis materials
Net
Bats and balls
Rounders Game
Rounders ball
Bats

MATHS DEPARTMENT NEEDS
EQUIPMENT
Blackboard ruler (1 metre)
Blackboard compass
Blackboard protractor
Blackboard set squares (45°, 30°, and 60° types)


LIST OF SUPPLIMENTARY TEXT
New general mathematics revision books by the following authors:
J B Channon.
A McLeish Smith
H C Head
Book 1, 2 and 3
Mathematics for secondary school courses.
Past mathematics exam papers.

TEACHING AIDS
Vanguards for drawing charts and graphs.
Permanent markers (1 packet).
Dice and playing cards (for probability).
Pairs of scissors.

ARTS AND CRAFT NEEDED
DRAWING AND PAINTING MATERIALS
Drawing papers – A4 size papers, vanguards, hard papers for drawing and 2B pencils.
Paints – (Oil paint, water colour, crayons, pastels and colour pencils of different variety), fixative (chemical) and charcoal for drawing.
Drawing boards and Easels.
Craft (Pottery, basketry, and leather work).
Throwing wheel, simple machine for moulding clay.
Carving tools – spatulas, wires, knives etc.

FOOD AND NUTRITION
COOKING EQUIPMENT
1.Cookers
2. Gas tower
3. Refrigerator
4. Cupboards/drawers.
5. Cutlery.
6. Bowls.
7. Text books

CLOTHING & TEXTILES
1. Sewing machine.
2. Electric iron and ironing board.
3. Sewing materials (cloths).
4. Sewing equipments.
5. Pins, needles, scissors, thimble, tape measures.
6. Full length mirrors.
7.Cutting out table.
8.Patterns.
9.Home economics department textbooks grade 7 to 9.


HOME MANAGEMENT
1. Chairs
2. Bucket.
3. Overall.
4. Cleaning materials.
5. Vanguards.
6. Markers.
7. Text books grade 7 to 9

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
1. The Gambia English – Pupils books 1-9.
2. Elementary dictionaries (junior students).
3. Intermediate dictionaries (senior students).
4. Advance learners’ dictionaries (teachers).
5. Students Companions.
6. Brighter Grammar books 1-3.
7. Comprehensive English for J.S.S. (by I.O. Okoro).
8. Practice Tests for English Language by (Mamy Jammeh Khan.).
9. Thing Fall Apart –Literature test.
10. Great Expectation –Literature test.
11. Trans Africa (books 1-3 pupils handbooks.
12. Trans Africa (books 1-3 pupils workbooks.
13 Islamic Text books Grade 1-9.(Trs’ sets).